Rock the Crossroads:
2+ mi w/u
Goal - 5k @ 17:30 ish
Actual - 5k @ 17:58 (course was 3.17)
1st place
5 mi c/d
10 mi total
Results
Photos (from the website)
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My awesome Kinesio taping job. Anthony is all fixed now! |
Anthony and I were very busy last weekend! Saturday we woke up early and headed to Liberty for our Kinesio taping seminar. Yep, we can now tape people up, which will be good for Anthony once he starts his practice. If you've been watching the Olympics at all, you know how popular Kinesio tape has gotten in the athletic world.
The seminar was supposed to go until 5:30, then we were going to head downtown for my evening race scheduled for 7:30 pm. We got out a about 1.5 hours early, so did some shopping and still ended up downtown early.
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Warming up before the race |
We arrived to packet pickup with the sun still high and temperatures in the upper 90's. Great. We put in a decent warm-up, had time to play around with the camera, then I headed to the start line. As usual, we saw lots of familiar faces (I'm going to miss KC races). The race went better than I thought. The sun had slipped down far enough that the building gave us shade during parts of the race.
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Quarter mile in to the race. I'm probably in the top 10 here. |
I often have trouble making up my mind for a race plan. Originally I wanted to run fast, then I thought I'd tempo it because of various factors, but it always boils down to the same thing. Once the gun goes off, my competitive streak appears. Of course I got more competitive as, once again, I found myself trailing Ken Moran for most of the race. I tried my hardest to latch on to him. I trailed by maybe 1-2 strides behind and pulled up even to him during the second mile. Ken and I take turns beating each other, and he pulled my through a fast 2.5 miles, splitting 5:35 and 5:47 (this mile was mostly up hill). The guy that finished ahead of me (who we were steadily gaining on) had pulled off with a side stitch and hopped back in once Ken and I ran by. I ended up surging up a hill to pass them both, only to immediately be passed right back by the 3rd place guy. Darn! I thought it would have been really cool to take 3rd overall :) I ticked off a 5:42 for my last mile, and wish I would have looked what I came through the actual 5k mark in (probably 17:34-17:40 ish).
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Probably about 1.25 miles into the race. Trying to hang on to Ken. |
Boy was I glad to be finished. With the miles I'm putting in, this 5k sure did feel long. Probably because I'm used to running at 5:30am. The awards were awesome! We got to go up on a huge stage and enjoy an outdoor concert prior to the awards (although most of our time was spent on a 5 mile cool down). It was a rock and roll themed event, and a fun evening.
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Ready to be done. It was a solid race. |
Week in Review
70 miles (in 10 runs)
1 race
16 hour seminar
1 workout
1 more week left of my first clinical!
Lots of miles. Good race. My legs feel like crap.
Due to the early seminar on Sunday, we were forced to put in a two-a-day. Running that late has thrown us into a bad start for the current week and left us feeling tired and sore (maybe I need some Kinesio tape to inhibit my IT band?) Earlier this week we also put in a good workout. We did 5 x 1k on the track with good recovery. Considering how hot it was that morning, our times were decent.